Archive for June, 2006
Walking West
June 30th, 2006Congrats to longtime friend and colleague Aaron Schmidt as he is moving out West and taking on the schools! Give ‘em heck Aaron.
SUNYLA New Tech Wiki
June 30th, 2006Slick! Take a look at what Peter Barvoets (with the assistance of the SUNYLA Information Technology Committee) has cooked up. Good on ya SUNY Librarians! (via Jenny Levine’s Bookmarks)
Podcast on School of Informatics Dissolution
June 29th, 2006It seems that a bunch of concerned librarians and students got together over pizza and soda to discuss and ask questions aboutr the issues going on at the School of Informatics at the University of Buffalo. Jim Milles, Librarian at the Law School, recorded the meeting.
Update - Jennifer E. Graham at Library Matters attended [...]
Show Me The Money!
June 29th, 2006Ed Vielmetti said something very important today:
“Electronic collections are often tucked away into an odd corner of a library’s web site, requiring separate logins from the main site and not integrated into the regular holdings or information presented. When you can find them, though, there’s a ton of useful stuff available that’s completely absent [...]
Caption This Photo
June 27th, 2006
Undergraduate Library Sorting2
Originally uploaded by benchilada.
It looks like the University of Illinois at Ubrba-Champaign is doing some book moving. Let’s caption it. Here’s mine.
“You want what volume from what journal? This is going to be a crap shoot”
What is Subscribed?
June 27th, 2006Ken Jennings has a blog. I’ll take “What’s new in my aggregator for $200 Alex”.
Barry Wellman Publications
June 27th, 2006Tons and tons and tons and tons of incredible looking publications about communities that I’m going to wrap my brain around during the upcoming months. (link via Full Circle - another blog you should be reading!)
Social Aspects of Writing
June 27th, 2006The ACRL blog has a post by Steven Bell, with a great quote:
“Perhaps Tony Schwartz nailed it when he said “writing is a social interaction”. In other words, authoring, even if you are writing solo, involves others. Less experienced writers may be intimidated about asking for help, but the presenters’ message was that your [...]
LT Love From WSJ
June 27th, 2006If you don’t keep up with what is happening at Library Thing (I do - I’m uttlerly fascinated with how many people link to/use/write about it), then you may not have been this piece from the WSJ today (well, maybe you serendipitously came across it).
If you didn’t, go read it (Do not pass [...]
Library Student Journal
June 26th, 2006Over at the Library Student Journal, a project of the School of Informatics at the University of Buffalo, they are blogging about the apparent decision to merge the school with the School of Education. Elu Guinnee writes:
“We’re trying to stay positive, and in reality the department has far too much going for it to be [...]
Take 5 to Recycle
June 26th, 2006“J” from A Librarian’s Guide to Etiquette (this one whould be in your aggregator as well) has some tips for when you return from a library conference. My favorite:
“Recycle all the PowerPoint print-outs, business cards, and other ephemera you collected, but will never look at again (5 minutes)”
So true.
Advice From Liz Lawley
June 25th, 2006If you don’t read mamamusings, you should.
Today, Liz provides some timely advice (for me anyway) on taking on new jobs:
“The first, and most critical thing–at least for me–was to always look for and take jobs that were a little (or even a lot) beyond what I thought I could do. It often felt like [...]
My New Job
June 25th, 2006I’m finally caught up with life and will be blogging regularly here again. This has been the longest blogging break I’ve taken in a while and it was badly needed. I’m refreshed and ready to get back to what I love to do.
But first, a bit about my job, which I ablsolutely adore. [...]
Guster at Bullmoose Music
June 25th, 2006Library Boy went to see Guster this evening and posted the setlist. I’m jealous. 300 people (70 the night before!!) in what looks like a very cozy atmosphere. In 1994, I went to the Wetlands (not around anymore) in NYC and saw Guster open for a Phish cover band called Stash (probably [...]
Catching Up
June 21st, 2006I’m trying folks. Really, I am. If you’ve sent me an e-mail over the past week and I haven’t gotten back to you, I will. Promise. I’ve read every e-mail sent, but with the new job and baby, I just don’t have the time to reply right now. My humble apologies.
The Battle over Books
June 21st, 2006Steven Frein was at a debate about digitizing books at the Los Angeles Public Library and links to Larry Lessig’s presentation and an audio recording of the talk.
Thanks Steven.
More Play for Carleton College Library
June 21st, 2006
LibraryTradingCards
Originally uploaded by stevenmcohen.
In the latest American Libraries Direct (e-mailed out today), our friends at the Carleton College Library were mentioned. To quote:
“Librarians at the Laurence McKinley Gould Library at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, have created sets of trading cards since 2002/2003 to publicize their services. [...]
ALA Hires Jenny Levine!
June 20th, 2006I’ve just nenewed my membership and I’m thrilled that Jenny Levine will now be working for me….er…I mean ALA members.
Score one for ALA. They know talent when they see it.
Hectic Pace…Well, Not Yet.
June 20th, 2006
Hectic Pace
Originally uploaded by stevenmcohen.
Andrew K. Pace, who I adore almost as much as Aggie, will soon be blogging. According to this press release from ALA:
“Andrew K. Pace, who writes the popular “Technically Speaking” column in each issue of American Libraries magazine, is launching the Hectic Pace [...]
Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day
June 20th, 2006
Bubble Wrap Appreciation 1
Originally uploaded by stivab.
Who knew? I wonder how they celebrated?
Hey, let’s play everyones favorite game, “caption this picture”. Do so in the comments.
Best Use of Flickr…Ever!
June 19th, 2006Jenny Levine mentions the trading cards created by the library staff at Gould Library (Yay Iris).
Color me impressed and I can’t resist saying, suweeeeeeeet!
I’m also thrilled that the trading card pool is getting lots of action these days (probably thanks to Jenny!). If you want to create your own, use this tool. And, [...]
More Ari M. Album Covers
June 18th, 2006
ari-document
Originally uploaded by stevenmcohen.
OK, Brian Smith officially rocks. He’s created two more Ari M. album covers. This one is my favorite. I’ve also created a set. Only 4 in there now, so I might have to bribe Brian into creating more.
A Hunka Hunka Librar* Blogs
June 18th, 2006Ready? Here we go folks. I have a list of about 60 blogs, but I want all of them to get as much action as possible, so I’ll only list 10 at a time. If you’ve submitted your blog and are not listed here, fear not. They will get posted.
FYI, I’m [...]
Libraries that Flickr
June 15th, 2006As promised, here is a list of libraries that have Flickr accounts. I know that there are many more out there, so if you want me to mention it here, make me a contact or send me a note. I’m going to post these every Thursday night.
+ Newport Public Library
+ Tipton Public Library
+ [...]
Fun With Snapper
June 15th, 2006
Fun With Snapper
Originally uploaded by stevenmcohen.
Wow! CyberNet shows off a really cool way to capture parts of screens without having to do any copy/paste/printscreen/photoshopping, etc. It’s a new to me Firefox add-on called Snapper. I Snappered my new contact information. Suweeeeet!
More Ch Ch Ch Ch Changes
June 15th, 2006Just a quick note that my cell phone number has changed. You can now reach me at 917-837-9706. I’ve also just scored a Verizon Broadband card for my laptop and I answered a library question while in traffic on the LIE this afternoon (no, I wasn’t driving). How about that for 2.0? [...]
So Many Librar* Blogs
June 14th, 2006The response to my mega posts listing library and librarian blogs has been overwhelmingly popular. So, to make it a bit easier for me, I’m going to post a new list every Sunday night at around 11:00PM EST.
So, keep ‘em coming. I’m almost convinced that there are more librar* blogs than any [...]
Whew!
June 13th, 2006It’s official. I have a new job at Law Library Management, Inc. It’s been a whirlwind few weeks, but I’m thrilled to be a part of the LLM team. Great owners, fantastic management (also the owners), and I’m back in the library world (Yay!). I answered my first reference question today [...]
Some RSS Goodies
June 12th, 2006There have been some interesting RSS resources that Aggie has delivered lately. Here’s a bit of a rundown:
+ Michael Sauers lectured about RSS and one of the attendees, who works at the Colorado Talking Book Library, was inspired. He created a text and podcast feed for their quarterly newsletters. Behold, the power [...]
Burper
June 12th, 2006
ari-murmur
Originally uploaded by stevenmcohen.
Brian Smith has created a second album cover for Ari, this one after REM’s 1st album (and my favorite), Murmur. Thanks Brian.